How can you feel joy | How can anyone feel joy

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Comment peult haver joye

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Comment peult avoir joye
Qui fortune contrent.
L'oysiau qui pert sa proye
De neus ne lui souvient.
Au boys sur la verdure
N'a point tout son désir;
De chanter il n'a cure
Qui vit en desplaisir.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521), "Comment peult haver joye" [
text verified 1 time
]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "How can you feel joy", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-07-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 36

How can you feel joy

Language: English after the French (Français)

How can anyone feel joy
When fortune opposes him?
The bird which loses its prey
Does not think of its nest;
In the wood on the green grass
It has none of its desire.
He who lives unhappily
Has no care to sing.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2012-07-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 43